From its inception and increasingly from the second half of the 20^th century, the question of the scientific status of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis has become the ground of a complex and long-lasting debate. This seminar will attempt to capture the main arguments of the debate, clarify misconceptions and identify the methodological issues on which the validity of the practice of analytical psychology turns. It will explore questions such as:

·      What is the patient coming for?

·      What is the psychotherapistdoing, or believe they are doing?

·      In what ways can analytical psychology fit in the spectrum of the sciences, if at all?  

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Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research and former Jungian Director of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute on Jungian theory and German aesthetics. She is one of the three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber Novus. She is also leading a Reading Group for the British Psychotherapy Foundation focusing on the systematic study of Jung's primary texts.

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Jones, Raya, 2014. Vicissitudes of a Science Complex. In, Jung and the Question of Science. Routledge.

Jung, C.G., 2012. The Red Book - Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition, ed. Sonu Shamdasani. Norton W. W. & Company. pp. 277 – 283, and pp. 398 – 402.

Frosh, Steven, 2006. Chapter 6:The Outcome of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. In, For and Against Psychoanalysis. Routledge

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